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Jan 13, 2021
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30-minute radio program for January 19, 2021. Last of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. This week's installment continues to explore the ecological devastation wrought by the trio of neoliberal capitalism, rampant...
Topics: advertising, capitalism, psychology, consumerism, environment
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Dec 11, 2020
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Dec 11, 2020
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ROBERT FISK, who died on October 20, was one of the finest foreign correspondents writing in English. For decades his beat was the Middle East. To mark his passing, we reprise one of his few appearances on New World Notes, in this installment from February 2019. Also featured is former foreign correspondent CHRIS HEDGES. Different in style, they are alike in their hatred of lies and propaganda, their command of recent history--and their disdain for Trump's presidency. Fisk discusses the war in...
Topics: propaganda, journalism, Robert Fisk, Chris Hedges, Putin, resistance, rebellion
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Nov 30, 2020
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Nov 30, 2020
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Reflections by KD on American toilet-paper shortages current and past--including the original one of 1973. Plus capitalism's high-dollar solution to the current one: give bidets as Christmas presents to everyone on your list. Yes, they actually said this. And David Rovics' 99-cent alternative. Plus a short, unusually upbeat talk by Chris Hedges and--to celebrate installment #666--a few words on the number of the beast. https://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: Chris Hedges, toilet paper shortage, supply chain, bidet, Pandemic Journal
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Nov 24, 2020
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Nov 24, 2020
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A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges, delivered in October 2020. Second of 2 parts. Corrected version. Hedges sees the engineering of public despair as a deliberate strategy of our country's real rulers, the corporate oligarchs. Alas, history shows that citizens in despair often turn to fascism, thereby only compounding their misery and the oligarchs' power. In Part 2, Hedges focuses on the rise pf "Christian...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, police, Christian Right
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Nov 22, 2020
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Nov 22, 2020
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The MP3 files uploaded to this page were defective. Do not listen / download from this page. Here is the the new page with good links : https://archive.org/download/nwn-665-hedges-cultural-despair-2-b-192k ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges , delivered in October 2020. Second of 2 parts. Hedges sees the engineering of...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, police, Christian Right
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Nov 20, 2020
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Nov 20, 2020
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A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges , delivered in October 2020. First of 2 parts. Hedges sees the engineering of public despair as a deliberate strategy of our country's real rulers, the corporate oligarchs. Alas, history shows that citizens in despair often turn to fascism, thereby only compounding their misery and the oligarchs' power. In Part 1 , Hedges surveys the misery in which tens of millions of Americans now...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, COVID-19, Democratic Party, media
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Nov 14, 2020
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Nov 14, 2020
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Capitalism is a fatally flawed economic system that cannot be made to work well, argues economist Richard D. Wolff . One fatal flaw is its instability: for the past 300 years, capitalist economies have crashed every 4-7 years. We are now in the third crash of the 21st century, the worst since the 1920s. The COVID pandemic--and the right-on-schedule crash it triggered--make the system's failures undeniable, Wolff argues. Wolff is in fine form in these selections from an interview (of September...
Topics: Richard D, Wolff, Donald Trump, capitalism, economy, crash
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Nov 2, 2020
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Nov 2, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. Last of 3 parts. Part 3 covers the enthusiastic reception by some schools of Zinn's A People's History..., Zinn as playwright, and his activities to forestall the US invasion of Iraq. First, though, we'll hear President Trump (in October 2020) denouncing Zinn for destroying schoolchildren's patriotism. And some...
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, education, antiwar movement, Iraq, Gulf War II
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Oct 28, 2020
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Oct 28, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. 2nd of 3 parts. Part 2 covers Zinn's firing by Spelman College, move to Boston University, Vietnam-era antiwar activities, trip to Hanoi to return American POWs, his views on civil disobedience, and his targeting by the police and FBI. Of special interest in Part 2: extensive reflections by antiwar activist Fr....
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, antiwar movement, Vietnam War,...
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Oct 23, 2020
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Oct 23, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. Part 1 covers Zinn's impoverished early life in NYC; his early disillusionment with the police; and his experiences as a shipyard worker, Air Force bombardier in WWII, graduate student, and left-leaning white professor in a conservative Black college in the South as the Civil Rights movement took hold. All these...
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, World War Two, Spelman College
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Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
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Selections from The Firesign Theatre's 1970 classic, "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers." Masters of irony, parody, travesty, and sound effects, Firesign created radio dramas satirizing a nation unable to tell reality from the nonsense on TV--nonsense concocted by prostitute politicians and corporate greedheads. The perfect program for the 2020 election campaigns! The plot (such as it is): Flipping TV channels late at night, retired actor George Leroy Tirebiter finds dreck...
Topics: election, campaigns, movies, popular culture, Firesign Theatre
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Oct 5, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
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A classic audio collage by Chazk / Virtual Renderings, condensed a bit by KD. It explores the root of today's devastating social, economic, and environmental problems: Western civilization's out-of-touch-ness with the natural world. American Indians provide better examples of how to thrive in the world. Highlights of Part 2 include Prof. John Mohawk on European vs. Indian views of nature; Toby Hemenway on why the development of grain agriculture was a calamity for humanity and the natural...
Topics: indigenous cultures, American Indians, agriculture, ecology, Chazk, Virtual Renderings
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Sep 30, 2020
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Sep 30, 2020
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A classic audio collage by Chazk / Virtual Renderings, somewhat condensed by KD. It explores the root of today's devastating social, economic, and environmental problems: Western civilization's out-of-touch-ness with the natural world. American Indians provide better examples of how to thrive in the world. Included: the greatest Navajo insult, why hunter-gatherers lived longer and better than farmers, and other interesting ideas. The piece blends commentary by indigenous people and...
Topics: indigenous cultures, American Indians, agriculture, ecology, Chazk, Virtual Renderings
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Sep 22, 2020
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Sep 22, 2020
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Living in a collapsing empire is no fun at all. The elites plunder the metropolis, public institutions fail, and politics become nearly meaningless. Both journalist Chris Hedges and propaganda expert Mark Crispin Miller share some good insights on the subject. And just as you suspect, they are not talking about ancient Rome or the USSR but about the United States in the Fall of 2020. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com Many thanks to Richard D. Wolff's Economic Update program for his interview...
Topics: politics, economics, empire, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Chris Hedges, Mark Crispin Miller
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Sep 13, 2020
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Sep 13, 2020
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KD explores some popular nonviolent rebellions that nobody saw coming--such as the "Arab Spring" and Occupy (both 2011)--and draws parallels to today's popular rebellion against the racist violence of police. Then the young Howard Zinn, in a debate from 1971, argues that nonviolent mass protests have ALWAYS been necessary in the U.S. to compel the System to change. Zinn was defending in advance a massive protest against the Vietnam War, which was then being planned for Washington,...
Topics: protest, rebellion, nonviolence, Vietnam War, Howard Zinn, Black Lives Matter, police
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Sep 8, 2020
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Sep 8, 2020
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Ex-cop, investigative journalist, activist, and prophet Michael Ruppert (1951-2014) was quirky, controversial ... and very often right. In this interesting monologue, he explains why Western industrial civilization is unsustainable and beginning to collapse--and what Americans can do to weather the transition. Surprisingly, he ends on a note of optimism. From Chris Smith's 2009 film, Collapse . Previously broadcast, in December 2012. This current upload (NWN #653) is the installment's first...
Topics: economics, collapse, Western civilization, capitalism, Michael Ruppert
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Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 21, 2020
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A fine recent audio collage--the latest released (March 2018) by Virtual Renderings / Chaz K. Not previously broadcast on New World Notes . Second of two parts. Condensed a bit by KD. The heart of Part 2 is a somewhat comic story, told by a young witch (Kirsten Hal), of her partially successful attempts to communicate with a rosemary plant. In counterpoint to this are words by herbalists, social critics, and others on the complexity of the plant world, the inability of logic alone to explain...
Topics: ecology, plants, herbalism, botany, plant communication, rosemary
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Jul 19, 2020
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Jul 19, 2020
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A fine recent audio collage--the latest released (March 2018) by Virtual Renderings / Chaz K. Not previously broadcast on New World Notes . First of two parts. Condensed a bit by KD. It's an intriguing mix of parts of lectures and interviews, music, dramatic readings, and whatnot on this theme: With much of Western Civilization and corporatocracy proving unsustainable and inhumane, we need to re-develop our understanding and appreciation of natural ecology. In particular, we need to appreciate...
Topics: ecology, plants, trees, green, herbalism, botany
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Jun 15, 2020
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Jun 15, 2020
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Another tribute--our fifth--to the spoken-word art of late-night radio great Jean Shepherd. This week we celebrate not Shep the satirist and social critic but Shep the master storyteller. He tells of two tornados he witnessed: the first as a young teenager in the 1930s, the second as steel-mill worker in the 1940s. The stories are fascinating and humorous accounts of one of the oddest and most unpredictable forces of nature. They are also a fine look at small-town life in the Depression-era...
Topics: Jean Shepherd, tornado, Midwest, steel mill
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Jun 7, 2020
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Jun 7, 2020
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Critical reflections on current events--particularly the protests following the George Floyd murder. And on the campaign names of politicians, the Bushes of Connecticut, America's dirty secret (social class), how to tell your Andover from your Exeter, Joan Didion, government by executive order, the insane clown posse in the White House, Episcopalians vs. Pharisees, and even some praise for the Governor, His Excellency Ned. Yes, OF COURSE it's all related! newworldnotes.blogspot.com New World...
Topics: Donald Trump, Ned Lamont, Joan Didion, social unrest, social class, politicians, names
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May 25, 2020
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May 25, 2020
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30-minute radio program for May 26, 2020. A bouquet of this and that, not random but loosely structured. Features a fine talk ("Rebel Lawyers" 2019) by Mumia Abu-Jamal, two satires by The Firesign Theater (1968, 1969), and commentary by KD. The commentary focuses on corruption of language as a tool of the powerful, the sea of propaganda in which we all swim, the historical uses of potpourri, the unhappy similarities of 17th and (U.S.) 21st century responses to pandemics, and the...
Topics: pandemic, COVID-19, social control, propaganda, language, Mumia Abu-Jamal, COVID-19, social...
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Mar 10, 2020
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Mar 10, 2020
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30-minute radio program for March 24, 2020. Wry and satiric notes and comments on the coronavirus pandemic as it gains a foothold in Connecticut. Complementing KD 's chronicles are a new song by David Rovics , a classic poem by (and read by) William Carlos Williams , and commentary by progressive populist Jim Hightower . http:// newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, class conflict, the Irish, capitalism, Democratic Party
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Feb 9, 2020
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Feb 9, 2020
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30-minute radio program for February 11, 2020. Journalist Chris Hedges traces the rise of the Corporate State, the destruction of democracy, and the corporate plunder of society. And (in Par 2) he surveys successful examples of nonviolent popular rebellion. This week he discusses how corporations subverted democracy in the US since 1914. And he takes us to some of America's "sacrifice zones"--areas devastated by unrestrained corporate plunder. He concludes with a scathing critique of...
Topics: corporations, capitalism, economy, Democratic Party
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Jan 6, 2020
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Jan 6, 2020
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30-minute radio program for January 12, 2021. Second of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. The video documentary was produced by the Media Education Foundation (2017) and narrated by communications scholar Sut Jhally....
Topics: advertising, capitalism, psychology, consumerism, environment
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30-minute radio program for January 5, 2021. First of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. The video documentary was produced by the Media Education Foundation (2017) and narrated by communications scholar Sut Jhally ....
Topics: advertising, capitalism, cultural history, consumerism
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Dec 17, 2019
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Dec 17, 2019
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30-minute radio program for December 24, 2019. Part 2 of an intriguing audio tapestry woven by Robin Upton from Unwelcome Guests' archival material. It's a fine exploration of how the forces that run the world actually operate in practice. And an exploration of the propaganda they generate to pacify and mislead the people. Central to this tapestry is Richard K. Moore's fine essay, "Escaping the Matrix," read by Lyn Gerry. Woven around that are several other discussions that...
Topics: capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, The Matrix
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Dec 16, 2019
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Dec 16, 2019
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30-minute radio program for December 17, 2019 Another intriguing audio tapestry woven by Robin Upton from Unwelcome Guests' archival material. It's a fine exploration of how the forces that run the world actually operate in practice. And an exploration of the propaganda they generate to pacify and mislead the people. Central to this tapestry is Richard K. Moore's fine essay, "Escaping the Matrix," read by Lyn Gerry. Woven around that are several other discussions that supplement,...
Topics: capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, The Matrix
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Dec 3, 2019
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Dec 3, 2019
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The late activist-essayist-novelist-historian Gore Vidal reads his "Open Letter To the Next President." I hope Elizabeth and Bernie are listening, for Vidal's "letter" is as timely now as it was when he spoke--shortly before the election of 2000. Vidal urges dismantling the out-of-control Pentagon and the National Security State, and he denounces Congress for serving the corporations rather than the citizens. Plus a clip from the movie Bob Roberts and some music by Bruce...
Topics: Gore Vidal, national security state, Pentagon, military, corporations, John F. Kennedy
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Nov 16, 2019
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Nov 16, 2019
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30-minute radio program for November 19, 2019. A seasonally inspired alternative view of the European "settling" of the United States. Three views, in fact, ranging in tone from Jim Hightower 's wry humor to the Firesign Theater 's comic satire to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 's matter-of-fact catalogue of horrors. Hightower tells of American settler-Indian feasts before the 1621 one in Plymouth. The Firesign Theater reenacts how the West was won. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals many shocking...
Topics: Thanksgiving, North America, settlers. history, Indian Wars, genocide
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Nov 8, 2019
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Nov 8, 2019
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30-minute radio program for November 12, 2019. An important and very listenable exploration of the meaning of "terrorism" and the many aspects of life affected by terrorist behavior. The exploration reveals remarkable similarities in the acts and goals of Al Qaeda, Western governments, the Fortune 500, and others. The backbone of the program is a brilliant talk professor John McMurtry gave just after 9/11 (2001). Interspersed with this are excerpts from talks by several other speakers...
Topics: terrorism, capitalism, John McMurtry, oil, Afghanistan, totalitarianism, banking
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Oct 27, 2019
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Oct 27, 2019
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30-minute radio program for November 5, 2019. An important and very listenable exploration of the meaning of "terrorism" and the many aspects of life affected by terrorist behavior. The exploration reveals remarkable similarities in the acts and goals of Al Qaeda, Western governments, the Fortune 500, and others. The backbone of the program is a brilliant talk professor John McMurtry gave just after 9/11 (2001). Interspersed with this are excerpts from talks by several other speakers...
Topics: terrorism, capitalism, WTO, John McMurtry, neoconservatives, oil, Afghanistan
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Oct 13, 2019
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Oct 13, 2019
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30-minute radio program for October 15, 2019. Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail discusses aspects of the climate crisis--and how individuals can respond to it. Topics include melting glaciers, methane feedback loops, geoengineering, industrial capitalism, and indigenous vs. capitalist-consumer approaches to the world. We have much to learn from indigenous peoples, Jamail stresses, and we had better learn it fast. This is the Q&A session following Jamail's April 11 talk in...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Native Americans, glaciers, methane, indigenous
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Oct 7, 2019
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Oct 7, 2019
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30-minute radio program for October 8, 2019. Journalist GLENN GREENWALD revealed the story of Edward Snowden and the US government's secret spying on every American. Here Greenwald talks about Snowden and also about the government's surveillance of everybody, assault on civil liberties, and hypocrisy about leaks. And he talks about the disgraceful behavior of the US "mainstream" news media-- determined to SERVE those in power rather than to hold them accountable. With a brief...
Topics: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, surveillance, NSA, press, news media
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Sep 14, 2019
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Sep 14, 2019
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Part 2: How Do We Respond? 30-minute radio program for September 17, 2019. For several years, independent journalist Dahr Jamail--who won awards for his coverage of the Iraq War and occupation--has been investigating the global climate crisis. His conclusions are based on both his personal observations around the world and also extensive interviews--with top scientists and with ordinary people already suffering from the effects of climate change. His new book is titled, The End of Ice. In April...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Native Americans
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Sep 10, 2019
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Sep 10, 2019
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Part 1 : Denali, Fallujah, Australia 30-minute radio program for September 10, 2019. For several years, independent journalist Dahr Jamail--who won awards for his coverage of the Iraq War and occupation--has been investigating the global climate crisis. His conclusions are based on both his personal observations around the world and also extensive interviews--with top scientists and with ordinary people already suffering from the effects of climate change. His new book is titled, The End of...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Denali, war crimes, Iraq War, Great Barrier Reef, imperialism
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Sep 2, 2019
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Sep 2, 2019
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30-minute radio program for September 2, 2018. Last of three parts. A very good talk by Progressive historian Howard Zinn, delivered in 2008. It deals with key themes in Zinn's writing (and social activism): social justice, war, economic power, the anti-democratic behavior of governments (including ours), propaganda, and the power of the people to organize and compel justice. Part Three (this week) is (IMHO) the finest part of Zinn's long talk. It begins with Zinn's moving and cogent rejection...
Topics: Howard Zinn, politics, war, democracy, social movements
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Aug 25, 2019
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Aug 25, 2019
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30-minute radio program for August 27, 2019. Progressive historian, essayist, and novelist GORE VIDAL is in fine form as--with much wit--he explains what's wrong with the United States. Spoiler Alert: The answer is, two fake political parties with essentially the same program; perpetual war that benefits only the military-industrial-political complex; the ruinous costs to the citizens of perpetual war; and rule by the finaincial elite. Sounds like he's got us pegged perfectly, but he was...
Topics: Gore Vidal, war, Cold War, economy, military-industrial complex
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Aug 13, 2019
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Aug 13, 2019
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30-minute radio program for August 13, 2019. Progressive historian, analyst, social critic, public intellectual, anti-imperialist and wit (not to mention novelist and screenwriter) GORE VIDAL is fondly remembered in this tribute. Vidal is in fine form as he holds forth in two interviews, from 2005 and 2003. Brief introduction by K.D. Thanks to the programs Five o'Clock Shadow (2012, containing the 2005 interview) and Dateline (Australia, 2003) for the Vidal audio. I have excerpted from,...
Topics: Gore Vidal, empire, democracy, George W Bush, United States, war
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Jul 21, 2019
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Jul 21, 2019
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30-minute radio program for July 23, 2019. Our nation's Founders encouraged business but distrusted corporations--which they tightly regulated and restricted. Jefferson warned that corporations could end up running the country. (Yep!) In a fine talk, business expert Ted Nace describes the history of corporations, ... their growing power, ... and their frequent battles with The People--some of which The People won. Also reflections by K.D. on the branding of everything and 2 relevant songs....
Topics: Ted Nace, corporations history, economics, resistance
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Jul 15, 2019
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Jul 15, 2019
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30-minute radio program for July 16, 2019. Eugenics is in the news again. We explore the sordid pseudo-science with a section from the film Human Resources (not previously broadcast on NWN), reflections by KD, and a song by David Rovics. Thanks to Robin Upton (unwelcomeguests.net), who adapted all of Human Resources for radio broadcast. David Rovics' song "Denmark 1943" is from his album, The Other Side . http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: eugenics, Vermont, Genetics Survey of Vermont, Denmark boatlift
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Jun 16, 2019
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Jun 16, 2019
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30-minute radio program for June 25, 2019. Second of 2 parts. On the 11th anniversary of his death, we celebrate the political and cultural satire of the great comedian George Carlin. We focus on the last two decades of Carlin's long career--by which time his political views had moved well left of center. Carlin is one of the most astute critics of capitalism, imperialism, and American arrogance--and certainly the funniest. He died on June 22, 2008. This week's sketches: 1. They own you / the...
Topics: George Carlin, capitalism, class, airport security, public health, parenting, American culture
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Apr 21, 2019
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Apr 21, 2019
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30-minute radio program for April 23, 2019. In a humorous/satiric monologue, KD reflects on several current (and a few other) events, all somehow connected to America at Easter-time. Plus a song by David Rovics. Topics include secularization and commercialization of holidays, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Mueller Report, John Brown, the Stop-and-Shop supermarket strike, and how Edward Bernays got American women hooked on cigarettes. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: labor unions, supermarket, Notre Dame Cathedral, Edward Bernays, cigarettes, corporations, John...
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Apr 14, 2019
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Apr 14, 2019
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30-minute radio program for April 16, 2019. Classic broadcast, from 1965, by radio's great humorist-satirist-storyteller Jean Shepherd, condensed by K.D. With wit and humor, Shepherd reflects on adolescent psychology ... on being "shot down" ... on traumatic experiences ... and on the absurd prose on back of packages--notably Official World's Fair Toothpicks. Then he tells a story from his childhood: how he snuck into a Ukrainian-American picnic, pretended to speak Ukrainian, and...
Topics: Jean Shepherd, Ukrainian, picnic, hamburger, marketing, advertising, radio
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Mar 21, 2019
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Mar 21, 2019
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30-minute radio program for March 26, 2019. Media scholar Mark Crispin Miller explores how the government--aided by the corporate media--molds public opinion through massive and unceasing campaigns of propaganda. The propaganda manufactures widespread public consent for imperialism, military adventures abroad, and neoliberal economic policies. In a brief introduction, KD analyzes the propaganda saturating a N.Y Times "news" article on Venezuela (March 13, 2019). Miller spoke with host...
Topics: imperialism, empire, propaganda, public opinion, media, Edward Bernays, Mark Crispin Miller,...
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Feb 23, 2019
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Feb 23, 2019
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30-minute radio program for February 26, 2019. In separate talks, two fine foreign correspondents discuss current affairs--Robert Fisk and Chris Hedges. Different in style, they are alike in their hatred of lies and propaganda, their command of historical details--and their disdain for Trump's presidency. Fisk discusses--besides Trump--the war in Syria, Vladimir Putin, and the flood of propaganda in the media. Hedges discusses how social justice requires economic justice and also effective...
Topics: Robert Fisk, Chris Hedges, Syria, Iran, Putin, Donald Trump, nonviolence, revolution
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Feb 14, 2019
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Feb 14, 2019
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30-minute radio program for February 19, 2019.Second of 2 parts. Journalist-prophet-activist CHRIS HEDGES is in fine form in this new speech. With some new examples and new connections he explores the history and the bad effects of the corporate takeover of America. The effects include the degradation of our culture, economy, politics, and freedom--and of the planet's ecosystem. As Hedges sees it, the only sane response is concerted nonviolent resistance to "the corporatocracy." Of...
Topics: United States, corporations, democracy, Republican Party, cults
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Feb 9, 2019
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Feb 9, 2019
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30-minute radio program for February 12, 2019. First of 2 parts. Journalist-prophet-activist CHRIS HEDGES is in fine form in this new speech. With some new examples and new connections he explores the history and the bad effects of the corporate takeover of America. The effects include the degradation of our culture, economy, politics, and freedom--and of the planet's ecosystem. As Hedges sees it, the only sane response is concerted nonviolent resistance Hedges spoke in New York City on...
Topics: United States, corporations, capitalism, banks, environment
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Feb 5, 2019
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Feb 5, 2019
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A good documentary film by Elena Rossini (2015), newly adapted to radio by KD. It's about the damage--social, physical, and especially psychological--wrought by the huge and highly profitable "beauty" industry. This week's installment explores the skinny ideal and the diet industry ...Photoshopping models to make them still skinnier ... images of men's beauty ... the sexualization of children, especially young girls ... the connections between the beauty business and the porn business...
Topics: beauty, cosmetics, fashion, marketing, girls
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Jan 29, 2019
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Jan 29, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for January 29, 2019. First of 2 parts. A good documentary film by Elena Rossini (2015), newly adapted to radio by KD. It's about the damage--social, physical, and especially psychological--wrought by the huge and highly profitable "beauty" industry. One of this film's virtues is its international scope. Throughout the world, the bad effects of the beauty business are remarkably similar--but the regional variations are very interesting. The film's focus shifts...
Topics: beauty, cosmetics, fashion, marketing
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Jan 16, 2019
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Jan 16, 2019
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30-minute radio program for June 18, 2019. First of 2 parts. On the 11th anniversary of his death, we celebrate the political and cultural satire of the great comedian George Carlin. We focus on the last two decades of Carlin's long career--by which time his political views had moved well left of center. Carlin is one of the most astute critics of capitalism, imperialism, and American arrogance--and certainly the funniest. He died on June 22, 2008. This week's sketches: 1. Religion = B.S. 2....
Topics: George Carlin, capitalism, class, airport security, public health, parenting, American culture
